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nikivdd wrote: Sat Jan 24, 2026 9:43 am

bondjamesbond wrote: Fri Jan 23, 2026 11:57 am As I understand it, until you finish with the fantasy of General Chaco's war in Latin America, we won't see our own ears?

I have gained the luxury of bouncing between projects. Probably after 2nd continent of Fantasy Corps, i will come back here to finish Chaco.

That's great!

nikivdd wrote: Sat Jan 24, 2026 9:45 am

srb644 wrote: Sat Jan 24, 2026 8:10 am Good to know. Does your equipment file v10b include a vanilla equipment file I saw here someplace? You seem to be the most prolific modder; perhaps you should consoladate your mods either here or off-site. I will look around for more of your creations. Thank you.

Yes, v10b includes all vanilla entries, a considerable number of unit sprites did change though.

I also quickly assembled a selection of campaigns i made throughout the years. I also posted the link in the first post of this thread.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/kw17m5ri ... 6.rar/file

The Matilda Frog is an Australian flamethrower tank based on the British Matilda II tank, which was developed during the Second World War.

At the end of 1944, a new modification was developed based on the British Matilda II medium tank. Instead of a tank gun, a flamethrower was installed on the tank. The turret, which previously housed the gunner and loader, was equipped with a tank for the fire mixture and compressed air cylinders. An additional 455-litre drop tank was installed at the rear of the hull.

The effective firing range of the Frog was 73-82 metres, with a maximum range of 128 metres. The rate of fire was 20 gallons per minute (two shots of 10 gallons or eight shots of 2.5 gallons). In the jungle, the effective range was 13-27 metres, which made the Frog effective against Japanese positions. The Frog was used by the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th detachments of the 2/1 Reconnaissance Squadron of the Australian Armoured Brigade in Borneo, Tarakana, Balikpapan and Labuan/Brunei. The disadvantage was a 25-30 second wait between rounds due to the compressed air system.

This is a wonderful compilation. I have played almost all of your mods and add-ons at one time or another! You are truly a genius at this game


Churchill Crocodile fires its flamethrower at a German fortification, 21 January 1945, Sint Jost, Netherlands.

I made some icons. Feel free to use.
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nikivdd wrote: Sat Jan 24, 2026 8:32 pm I made some icons. Feel free to use.

Can they be added to your Nikivdd Equipment File!?


Soviet armoured train destroyed in a duel with German tanks during Operation Barbarossa in 1941.



Soviet soldier next to a French R35. Instead of the standard 37 mm Puteaux gun, a Soviet 45 mm gun has been installed.

bondjamesbond wrote: Sat Jan 24, 2026 8:35 pm

nikivdd wrote: Sat Jan 24, 2026 8:32 pm I made some icons. Feel free to use.

Can they be added to your Nikivdd Equipment File!?

Yes, that’s possible, but the equipment file has not yet been prepared to accommodate these icons.

nikivdd wrote: Sat Jan 24, 2026 8:46 pm

bondjamesbond wrote: Sat Jan 24, 2026 8:35 pm

nikivdd wrote: Sat Jan 24, 2026 8:32 pm I made some icons. Feel free to use.

Can they be added to your Nikivdd Equipment File!?

Yes, that’s possible, but the equipment file has not yet been prepared to accommodate these icons.

Okay, I'll wait for your official update then.
https://en.topwar.ru/95577-ognemetnaya- ... aniya.html
https://en.topwar.ru/95676-ognemetnaya- ... aniya.html

nikivdd wrote: Sat Jan 24, 2026 9:45 am

srb644 wrote: Sat Jan 24, 2026 8:10 am Good to know. Does your equipment file v10b include a vanilla equipment file I saw here someplace? You seem to be the most prolific modder; perhaps you should consoladate your mods either here or off-site. I will look around for more of your creations. Thank you.

Yes, v10b includes all vanilla entries, a considerable number of unit sprites did change though.

I also quickly assembled a selection of campaigns i made throughout the years. I also posted the link in the first post of this thread.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/kw17m5ri ... 6.rar/file

Awesome! Very nice. Will play them all. Are you still expanding mods like USSR 37-42 and MPC 37-41?

srb644 wrote: Sun Jan 25, 2026 8:12 am Awesome! Very nice. Will play them all. Are you still expanding mods like USSR 37-42 and MPC 37-41?

I might, it all depends on what i feel like doing. For the time being i am bouncing between this thread and Fantasy Corps.

Icons continued.
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nikivdd wrote: Sun Jan 25, 2026 9:43 am

srb644 wrote: Sun Jan 25, 2026 8:12 am Awesome! Very nice. Will play them all. Are you still expanding mods like USSR 37-42 and MPC 37-41?

I might, it all depends on what i feel like doing. For the time being i am bouncing between this thread and Fantasy Corps.

It's your decision, of course, but maybe it would be better to focus on one thing so as not to waste energy and time! Otherwise, it's starting to resemble a patchwork quilt in which the hypothetical campaign for France has already been lost, and the Chaco War, which I personally am looking forward to more than fairy tales, has been put on hold.




Footage of the destruction of a Japanese Mitsubishi G4M torpedo bomber

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Very well!


Long before it became mainstream. The Dora special forces unit from the Brandenburg 800 regiment races across the Libyan desert in a four-wheel drive Steyr 1500 equipped with a 20 mm kWK 38 automatic cannon and machine guns (1942).



American armoured vehicles struggle with icy conditions. Ardennes, December 1944.

Firstly, these vehicles arrived on the Soviet-German front equipped with so-called ‘summer’ tracks, which did not provide the necessary traction in winter conditions and sometimes slid off icy roads into ditches. Therefore, in order to cope with this problem, repair units had to weld special metal ‘spikes’ onto the tracks.

https://mil-history.livejournal.com/996736.html


Matilda III tank, re-armed with a Soviet 76.2 mm ZiS-5 gun
https://military-chronicle.com/ru/maket-1/



A German Sd.Kfz. 10 half-track armored personnel carrier makes its way through mud during the spring thaw on the Eastern Front in 1942.



German troops enter Aachen, on the border with Belgium, after the remilitarization of the Rhineland region, March 18, 1936.

Been playing Grand Campaign 3.0. Very nice. Only problem I have is after conquering Poland (Grand Campaign '39), my unit file doesn't transfer to Campaign '40. I get an older game unit list. The equipment upgrades are Nikivvid's and so are the maps. Did I install something wrong? Should I reinstall the whole thing?
Looking around I have a Fall Weiss 1939 folder and a GC39 folder. Should all the GC folders be in the original Grand Campaign Folder or separated?

srb644 wrote: Mon Feb 02, 2026 5:10 am Been playing Grand Campaign 3.0. Very nice. Only problem I have is after conquering Poland (Grand Campaign '39), my unit file doesn't transfer to Campaign '40. I get an older game unit list. The equipment upgrades are Nikivvid's and so are the maps. Did I install something wrong? Should I reinstall the whole thing?
Looking around I have a Fall Weiss 1939 folder and a GC39 folder. Should all the GC folders be in the original Grand Campaign Folder or separated?

If i recall, the updated GC files should overwrite the vanilla files.

nikivdd wrote: Mon Feb 02, 2026 12:38 pm

srb644 wrote: Mon Feb 02, 2026 5:10 am Been playing Grand Campaign 3.0. Very nice. Only problem I have is after conquering Poland (Grand Campaign '39), my unit file doesn't transfer to Campaign '40. I get an older game unit list. The equipment upgrades are Nikivvid's and so are the maps. Did I install something wrong? Should I reinstall the whole thing?
Looking around I have a Fall Weiss 1939 folder and a GC39 folder. Should all the GC folders be in the original Grand Campaign Folder or separated?

If i recall, the updated GC files should overwrite the vanilla files.

Thank you! I think Ifigured it out. Good stuff!

Thank you for all the work and your beautiful campaigns! I'm playing Prelude to Blitzkrieg right now and have noticed that switch button for Kradshutzen 36 is not working. But for 15 cm howitzer for example is working.

doktorbole wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2026 3:55 pm Thank you for all the work and your beautiful campaigns! I'm playing Prelude to Blitzkrieg right now and have noticed that switch button for Kradshutzen 36 is not working. But for 15 cm howitzer for example is working.

Yes, there is an error in the switch. Thanks for catching that.

You are most welcome! Currently playing Fall Weiss, amazing campaign, same as others!

Banner day and some development update.
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And i am currently testing, tuning and doing some equipment file tweaks for the campaign underneath.
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In January 1938, amid mounting border tensions and fears of German expansion after the Anschluss, the MRN - le Mouvement de Renouveau National - and its allies forced through the Law of National Safeguard.
Officially temporary.
Practically permanent.

Key changes followed in rapid succession:
Parliament’s authority was curtailed
Political leagues were reorganized into state-approved “national syndicates”
The press was placed under “wartime supervision”
Regional military governors gained sweeping powers

By late 1938, France was still technically a republic — but the machinery of authoritarian rule was firmly in place.
At the center of the new order stood Marshal Henri de Montreuil (fictional), a Verdun veteran elevated as the embodiment of national unity.
France had not declared fascism.
It had simply… evolved into it.

Unlike Hitler’s Germany, the new French regime adopted a doctrine of engineered inevitability.
Open war was dangerous.
Managed escalation was preferable.
French planners believed that:
Germany would remain focused eastward
Britain feared continental instability more than French assertiveness
The Low Countries were diplomatically isolated
By mid-1939, with Europe on the brink, Paris quietly prepared its first test of the new order.

When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, the French High Command saw what others missed:
Berlin was committed in the east.
The western window was open — briefly.
Rather than launch a frontal assault into the Siegfried Line, the regime chose a subtler path: reshape the strategic map first.
Luxembourg was the key.
Small. Exposed. Symbolically defensible.

France would not appear the aggressor.
France would appear… inevitable.
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We are excited and looking forward to it. It looks like a lot of work.

Is the Chukchi War coming soon?


https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Чакская_война